OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Growing attacks by motorbike-riding extremists who flee into the forest have led Burkina Faso’s government to ban the use of motorbikes and bike carts from sunset to sunrise in its troubled east. Once-peaceful Burkina Faso experienced its first major extremist attack in 2015 and now is a member of a five-nation regional counterterror force launched last year. Extremists from Mali and Niger have penetrated the country and recruited youth frustrated by poverty and perceived state insecurity. Meanwhile, a local extremist group has grown. This year alone 69 people, including 31 members of security forces, have been killed, according to government statistics.

Source: National Post September 21, 2018 08:15 UTC